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gone one's own way

gone one's own way is the past participle of go one's own way.

Meaning of go one's own way

Verb

go one's own way (third-person singular simple present goes one's own way, present participle going one's own way, simple past went one's own way, past participle gone one's own way)

  1. (idiomatic) To act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
    • Why should she say, like a parrot, what her governess told her to, when there were birds and beasts and creeping things outside to study, and a library inside full of things really worth learning? So she went her own way, growing wistful and more lonely, and every day her big eyes grew wiser and...1907, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Bruce Rogers, The Princess Pourquoi, Mifflin & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12

Questions about gone one's own way

What is gone one's own way the past participle of?
Gone one's own way is the past participle of go one's own way.

Words near gone one's own way in the dictionary

  1. gone on strike
  2. gone on the account
  3. gone on the mitch
  4. gone on vacation
  5. gone one better
  6. gone one's own way
  7. gone one's ways
  8. gone or blown
  9. gone out
  10. gone out of one's way
  11. gone out on a limb

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